Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-08-13
NEWS NOTES.

Three hundred deaths from cholera &C
CURED in the city of Peshswur, lndia, curing
July.
There was a revolving scene at Lancaster
England. when Alfred Sonney was hanged
for Che murder of his sweetheart. The con.
demned man made desperate reslstanc:
and was only overpowered a,ter q naIs
struggle. He had to be carried 70 'ne Seal
fold.
A christening at the house of William
Mullen, in Brooklyn, was broken up Dy Tine
advent of brace of desperadoes VINO az.
tackled the merry-makers with Knives. a
pitched battle followed, resulting In the Kill
inc of one man, the fatal stabbing OF his Sis
ter. and the wounding of a number OF 9TH
ers. The tragedy grew out OF q feud OF sew,
eral months standing between Mullen ano
his assailants.
Nearly five thousand iron-workers In the
Mahoning valley have stopped Work, OWING
TO the refusal of the mill owners to recognize
a rule of the Amalgamated association pro.
hibitinp any man from holding two ''lobs'
at the same time. 1t is expected that the
strike will become general throughout the
country.
Rev. William Hazen, d. D., q prominent
Raptist dominic of Boston, fell dead while
walking the street in that city. He was rs
years old.
The annual report of the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway shows net earnings OF
11,25O,973, an increase OF $o3O6OO.
Emin Bey, the African explorer, has been
heard from under the date of Feb. III, when
his prospects were encouraging.
The national banks of the country have
been called upon for report of their c0nd1-
ton at the close of business, Aug. l.
The number of pupils enrolled in the Iowa
puplic schools, last year, was 48O, 788, and the
valuation of school buildings $l1,36O,472.
The Indians on the Mile Laos reservation
in Minnesota are reported to be on the war
path, and serious trouble is apprehended.
The recent election in the Cherokee ma
ton, Indian territory, resulted In the over
throw of Chief Bushyhead's party, which has
long been in power.
A famine is prevailing in Antigua, United
States of Columbia.
One of the oldest Lutheran churches in
the country was destroyed by lightning at
Stouchsburg, Pennsylvania. The edllce
dated from 1743.
Patrick A. Collins, the fre-eating con-
gresham from Boston, and William o Brien,
editor of United Ireland, were formally ten
dered the freedom of the city of Dublin.
An estimate of the population of China,
based upon official data, puts it at 3o2,OOO,-
600, as against 4l3, 0OO,0 600 in 1S42.
Recently, in a single week, eighty EIGHT
persons were executed in the city of Shang-
hal for belonging to secret societies.
Over one thousand telegraph poles have
been pulled down by mobs in the Munanan
Mingtz district in China. The populace de-
nounce the telegraph as an invention of the
devil.
The owner of extensive glass-works which
were destroyed during the recent labor riots
at Jumet, Belgium, has been awarded dam
ages to the amount of $4,000 by the
courts.
The drouth is causing stockmen to sacri-
fee their cattle, and they are going to Chlca-
go with rush, the bulk going at extremely
low prices. Grass hogs are declining under
ty and cheaper.
A convention of Indiana ex-prisoners of
war was held at Indianapolis, when delegates
were chosen to the national convention to
be held in Chicago August 10 and 20. The
for ell ex-prisoners of war.
An application has been made in the courts
at New York for the appointment of con-
servator of the person and property of Mary
Irene Hoyt, on the ground that she is an
prominently before the public some time ago
by her unsuccessful contest of the will of her
father, who left an estate of several millions.
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the waters at Baden.
6 Allen Francis, United States consul at st.
Thomas, Canada, is dead.
The Chicago city engineer declares that
the gre test economy will have to be enforc-
ed in the use of water, if water famine is
to be averted pending the erection of thenew
pumping works. A site for the new pump
ing station will be advertised for at once.
From ITO, 100000 to 120, 900 gallons of
water is being pumped daily, which taxes the
authorities agree that the extension of
water mains will have to be abandoned until
the water supply has been increase
The July returns show decrease in the
earnings of several of the leading western
which is attributable to a check in
the movement of merchandise, arising from
crop prospects In many sections.
A. d. Pelton manager of The Toledo Com
mercidt, and James w Brown, leading
lawyer and politician of that city. came to
blows in The Commercial Office over a dis
pute involving the business affairs of the
paper. 1t is rumored that The Commercial
will soon blossom out as democratic organ
under the management of Allen o. Myers,
now of The Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Paris newspapers advise the submits
sion of the Ferry Boulanger controversy to
There have been three deaths from cholera |
at Naples.
The fishing boat Gold Dust, owned at |
Eastport, Maine, has Seen seized by the |
Canadian authorities in New Brunswick |
waters for violations of the fishery regula-
lions.
The Rennes army corps has been selected |
for the French experiment at army mobili-
zation.
The clause in recent imperial ukase or
dering the removal of foreigners from their